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Acer Aspire One UMPC – small, good-looking, and cheap!

Categories: Acer, Asus, Linux
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Acer Aspire One UMPC

For a while the Asus Eee PC ruled the UMPC roost, with it’s quirky but cool design, good features, and most importantly, LOW price point. Until now.
Acer has entered the fray with the Aspire One UMPC – this combines an 8.9 inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Linux O/S, and WiFi – all in a package costing about £234.99 (Expansys UK).

Acer Aspire One UMPC UI

I’ve a feeling this burgeoning market is going to really explode in the next twelve months, so expect a plethora of models, to add to those out there already from Asus, Acer, and MSI.
If you would like to find out more about the Aspire One UMPC, you can go to Acer’s site here. If you want to buy one, then go to the Expansys site here.

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Ben Robinson

Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.

  • Mike Silva

    This is the device I’ve been wating for years.
    I had an HP Jornada 680, then got the Jornada 720, then I didn’t buy a Toshiba libereto because it was expensive and I didn’t want to pay for windows pre-instaled.
    I bought a “normal” 15″ s creen and hevy laptop (~3.2kg) but I couldn’t carry it with me for averywhere.
    Now I have this Aspire one for a month and I think it”s the best computer I could buy till now.
    It boot’s faster than any windows PC (even the ones 5 times more expensive).
    It has a decent keyboard
    It is really portable and light
    It has no virus or anti-virus problems
    It has a pretty decent webcam for skyping (in terms of general picture quality).